The economic centre of Germany and its second largest city, Hamburg is the nation's busiest port and its major industrial city.
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The "Free and Hanseatic City" of
Hamburg is Germany's second-largest metropolis with one of Europe's biggest ports.
Elegant and cosmopolitan, Hamburg is now a city of palatial office buildings, magnificent promenades, international musicals, extravagant shopping malls, and the famous Reeperbahn and St. Pauli.
The magical aura of faraway places is still alive in the old warehouse quarter and the little canals.
Hamburg is also
Germany's greenest city, with many spacious lawns and lovely parks.
Hamburg, lies on the
Elbe River near the North Sea. The city was extensively rebuilt after most of it was destroyed during World War II.
The city's many cultural institutions include the
Kunsthalle, a museum with an extensive collection of 19th- and 20th-century painting; a museum of crafts and decorative arts; an ethnology museum with extensive collections of South Seas, African, and Siberian artefacts;
The City boasts a modern opera house, noted for its production of contemporary operas; and several theatres. Hamburg has a large zoo and a botanical garden and is known for its
Sankt Pauli amusement quarter, which has many nightclubs along the Reeperbahn.
